LONDON (DNA News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) London-based chief has been indicted on charges of terrorism in a case pertaining to hate speech from the United Kingdom to his followers in Pakistan in 2016. “Altaf Hussain… was charged under section 1(2) of the Terrorism Act (TACT) 2006 with encouraging terrorism,” the Met Police said in a statement on its website. The charge as stated by the UK police is that Hussain “on August 22, 2016 published a speech to crowds gathered in Karachi, Pakistan which were likely to beRead More

KARACHI (DNA News) – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Thursday will chair party’s core committee meeting to discuss strategy regarding Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal’s (JUI-F) Azadi March. According to details, the participants will also deliberate upon the ongoing investigations of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against PPP leadership. Earlier, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had announced complete support for JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s ant-government protest and said that his party would welcome Azadi March. “We have not yet been told anything about the march, however, we completely back JUI-F,” he said.Read More

    Islamabad, October 10, 2019: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) have finalised 14 candidates for participation in the 70th Interdisciplinary and 7th Economics Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2020 to be held in Lindau, Germany.   Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between PIEAS, a leading University of Pakistan, and the Lindau Council, up to 10 scholars can participate each year in Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.   This year, around 300 applications were submitted, out of which 50 applicants wereRead More

ISLAMABAD, October 10 – The AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has said that the whole nation will have to prepare for the defense of motherland and to thwart enemy’s aggression as India has already imposed war on Pakistan and the Kashmiri people. Addressing as chief guest at the conference on “emerging regional security situation and Kashmir saga” organized by Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS) here on Thursday, he said that economic stability is imperative to strengthen Pakistan’s defense and make it invincible. He said that since attack on occupiedRead More